Glacial Recession in East Africa
Glaciers around the world are receding rapidly and tropical alpine glaciers in East Africa are no exception. Despite not typically being associated with the African environment in many people's minds (including my own prior to exploring this topic), they are deserving of increased concern. While its contributions to global emissions are insignificant, the continent is facing the most severe repercussions, as suggested by the most recent IPCC report. Provided that coverage of this matter is rather scarce, I am looking forward to educating myself about this topic and hopefully inspire others to do the same.
Rapidly shrinking Little Penck Glacier, Mt. Kilimanjaro (photo by Douglas R. Hardy)
Understanding of the glacier-climate interactions is crucial in getting a better sense of the mechanisms driving the rapid change and mitigating future impacts. With the current knowledge of the midtroposphere being limited, a deeper analysis of climate signals from the East African glaciers is particularly useful as these glaciers appear in elevations ranging from 5-6 km above sea level where the climate signals are captured (Mölg, 2009).
Paleoclimatologically speaking, I will look at the glaciers' evolution during earlier geologic ages, but also address recent changes and the current exacerbated rate of decline due to increased anthropogenic activities, as well as delve into the challenges future may bring regarding these complex and diverse systems. A review of academic literature will also allow for a critical reflection on media's portrayal of glacial recession in East Africa.
I really like how you have chosen to illuminate glaciers in Africa here. While you have provided a very good synthesis of material, including images and quotes, I think you could strengthen your post by setting out a couple of introductory lines about what your blog is about and how this leads you to talk about such a topic. You do a great job of this at the end, I would encourage you to include some of this at the start so that the reader has some context and knows what is coming up.
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Thank you, I will add a couple lines at the beginning to introduce it better
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